very picture

Compared with the pale prisoners I saw day by day, he looked the very picture of health.

The baby, a boy, was fat and bonny, the very picture of health and happiness.

The ruddy countenance of the pumpkin was the very picture of geniality.

He continued this practice to a good old age, and might have sat for the very picture of health.

It flashed over Gano that it had been something like this very picture that had first set him thinking about Mary Burne.